When you utilize group policy, there are different administrative templates for Vista, XP, and 7. Instead of having to create a new OU for XP vs Vista and 7 clients, you can use WMI filtering to apply the correct policy based on OS. To accomplish this, Launch GPMC Right click on WMI filters on the [...]

Sometimes we overlook the issue that is presented to us by not looking at the simplest things. So I ran into an issue where the machine was running Windows XP 64bit and things were running great. All of a sudden my computer reported 10GB for the drive. So what’s the deal? Checking the obvious, BIOS [...]

You probably noticed when you start up your machine, you get a bunch of programs that start that slow down your system. This could be like AIM, Real Audio, Quicktime, Windows media player, etc. You can prevent these from starting up by following these simple steps. 1) Click Start 2) Click run 3) Type in [...]

Sometimes on your workstations the group policy doesn’t take affect. Or you need it to take place immediately. The command to invoke this is gpupdate /force